Our study aims to investigate the effect of transition from Big 4 to Big 3 audit market on audit pricing competitiveness using a sample of Japanese listed firms from 2004 to 2014. First, we compare Big N audit fee premium earned from clients in large and small market segments. We find an...

This study examines the impact of country level corruption on audit fees. Using a sample of 102,934 firm year observations on companies from 48 countries over the period 1998-2014, we find that audit fees are positively associated with higher levels of corruption. We also find that corruption...

Prior research emphasizes the centrality of audit offices in understanding auditing practices, and documents significant inter-office variation in audit outcomes based on industry expertise and office size. Our study examines how two city-specific labor characteristics also affect audit offices...

This study examines the relationship between audit personnel salaries and office-level audit quality. We measure audit personnel salaries at the Associate, Senior and Manager ranks for Big 4 audit offices from 2004 to 2013 using unique data obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor. We find...

Academic practitioner auditors engage in practice-oriented research in terms of publishing journal articles, books, and book chapters on top of their audit activities. Based on theory and interviews with academic practitioner auditors, we argue that engaging in research helps practitioners to...

Using an international sample of firms from 31 countries, we study the relation between auditor quality and corporate tax aggressiveness. Using an indicator variable for tax aggressiveness when the firm's corporate tax avoidance measure is within the top quintile of each country-industry...

In this article we study the determinants of (i) audit services' public procurement criteria, and (ii) the audit fees of Portuguese municipalities. Our dataset is unique, resulting from merging new survey data with data that is not usually publicly available. We find that the majority of...

We investigated the relationship of self-regulation and the audit quality. We conduct our experiment in the context of auditing in a public goods game. First, players decide whether to join a self-regulatory organization, and second, whether to punish non-contributors. Finally, players assess...

This paper analyzes the impact of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)-type regulatory oversight on audit quality, audit value, and the audit market under different legal systems. Conventional wisdom suggests that regulatory oversight may be just a simple addition to a legal system...